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...Hunts and the Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked by silent, leathery men and their resilient women...
There is nothing new, or even particularly secret, about the hundreds of thousands of Mexican "wetbacks" (mojados, as they are known to their Chicano cousins), who have swum the Rio Grande or simply walked into the U.S. at some point along the hundreds of miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them...
...final excursion is scheduled to begin Monday at 3:24 a.m. E.D.T., with a tour along Hadley Rille, one of the many canyon-like features on the moon that have long puzzled scientists. Most experts now dismiss the idea that rilles were carved out by water, like the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, N. Mex., which they resemble; instead, the canyons may be the result of lava flows. To help settle the argument, the astronauts plan to drive part way down the slope, which begins at a relatively gentle incline of about 10°. As the going gets rougher...
...earth. Mexican officials report that at least 10,000 animals have died there since the disease hit the country earlier this year. A federal-state task force fighting the epidemic in Texas has already recorded 1,000 animal deaths, and has received reports that many are floating down the Rio Grande River...
...Humans can also contract equine encephalitis if they are bitten by the virus-carrying mosquitoes, and many people have developed the disease. Several thousand inhabitants of the northern Mexican town of Rio Verde have come down with the telltale, flu-like symptoms: headache, fever, aching bones, nausea and vomiting. In the border town of Brownsville, Texas, three children have been diagnosed as having the disease. Elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley, 36 people with similar symptoms have been admitted to hospitals. Their chances of recovery, however, are excellent. Venezuelan equine encephalitis is rarely fatal to humans; most recover from...